#2442 - Ehsan Ahmad

Ehsan Ahmad (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

SPEAKER_3 (0:06)

Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Ehsan Ahmad (0:12)

Hey, fella.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Hey.

Ehsan Ahmad (0:13)

What's going on, brother?

Ehsan Ahmad (0:14)

Good to be back, Joe.

Ehsan Ahmad (0:15)

Good to see you, as always.

Ehsan Ahmad (0:18)

This time, I have something to actually promote.

Ehsan Ahmad (0:20)

Well, you're always promoting. I mean, any kind of appearance is sort of a promotion.

Ehsan Ahmad (0:26)

Right.

Ehsan Ahmad (0:26)

You're promoting. The audience gets to see you.

Ehsan Ahmad (0:29)

Right.

Ehsan Ahmad (0:30)

Right.

Ehsan Ahmad (0:30)

Right. It was so funny because it got me thinking. So I started watching Patrice's Opie and Anthony appearances because there's a blist of them on Spotify. And what was so funny to me was like that, you know how they have these like these group of like mentally disabled people that they kind of fuck with.

Ehsan Ahmad (0:47)

Opie and Anthony?

Ehsan Ahmad (0:48)

Yeah. Yeah. Like a carousel. It's like it's like kind of mean.

Ehsan Ahmad (0:52)

It's kind of horrible.

Ehsan Ahmad (0:53)

Yeah. It's kind of like, oh, I'm kind of glad I ever passed that.

But what made me laugh is every single one of them at the end of the thing was like, and here's my website. I had a website and I was like, damn, I've been on The Joe Rogan Experience twice and I don't even have a website.

Ehsan Ahmad (1:08)

You didn't have a website?

Ehsan Ahmad (1:09)

I didn't have a website. This is the first time I had a website.

Ehsan Ahmad (1:12)

Wow. What did you do? Did you make it yourself?

Ehsan Ahmad (1:14)

No, I realized like, oh, I got to pay people to do stuff like that. That's out of my wheelhouse of like things I can do. Ironically, I'm terrible with technology for a guy who looks like me.

Ehsan Ahmad (1:24)

There's some things you could do, like Squarespace has a great setup. It's pretty easy to do.

Ehsan Ahmad (1:30)

Yeah, but I think that's just pure. It's like pure laziness on my end for sure. And a little bit like I spend so much time on my brain space. This is dedicated to my jokes. I kind of shut out everything else.

Ehsan Ahmad (1:43)

It's a fun time to be alive. One of the things that's really exciting about The Mothership is for someone like me who's been doing comedy for so long, it's really exciting to watch people's careers launch. See guys like Cam Patterson go from getting a spot on Kill Tony to being a regular on Kill Tony to being on fucking Saturday Night Live.

Ehsan Ahmad (2:04)

It's crazy. Like some of them like Christina Mariani now just like sells out rooms at the comedy store all the time. She's killing it. And then you have like Peyton Ruddy and like Dylan Carlino. These are just guys who were just at the club and just made away like social media-wise.

Ehsan Ahmad (2:18)

And you get to see people get just tighter and better like McCusker's new set like we did last night. Really fucking good, man. Super solid. Really fun. It's just like, we got a good thing, man. It's a good thing. Yeah.

Ehsan Ahmad (2:33)

It's a fun. It's just a fun place to be around everyone. Just working jokes. That's what it is really. It's so funny. There is such this narrative outside of the ship about what Austin comedy is. It's really just a bunch of people just doing jokes.

Ehsan Ahmad (2:46)

The narrative is only with jealous people. It's not based on any reality. It's not based on people who go there and hang out. Right.

Ehsan Ahmad (2:53)

Well, it's always these people who love to talk about Austin, but they don't talk to anyone in Austin. It's like there's a bunch of comics willing to hang out and talk to you.

Ehsan Ahmad (3:00)

I think I've told you this before, but I have a friend of mine who's somewhat of a philosopher, an online friend. I don't even know what he looks like. We've been going back and forth for years. But he warned me about this a long time ago. He said, You've created a walled garden. And he goes, You've got all these friends, and you're all supporting each other, and you're all having fun. But there's a lot of people that feel on the outside, and they feel left out of it. And so they're like, Fuck those people. That party sucks. It's kind of along those lines. And if you could find some connections to other negative things, like me and Tony, we have this connection to Trump, and so does Shane. And there's all sorts of that. Oh, fucking, you gotta be a right-winger to be in. And then the narrative comes up. Oh, you gotta tell jokes about fucking trans people. You have to, you can't be a liberal. You can't be this. You can't be like...